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Monday, March 24, 2008

MY PILLOW IS THE THRESHOLD

is a song off the Silver Jews new LP "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea". It won't be released till August 2008 but thanks to illegal file sharing I've procured a copy. If the internet police are reading this: I promise to buy the vinyl the week it's released.

This song seems to be in defense of the sleepy intellectual who the rest of the world sees as a lazy parasite yet who might just be some sort of sage dragging important ideas from the other side into reality. I especially dig the "throw my thoughts like tomahawks" and "what looks like sleep is really hot pursuit" lines.

I take decaf coffeeTwo sugars and one creamI don’t see the use in staying up just to watch tv

I unplug all the neonTurn the ringer off the phoneThrow my thoughts like tomahawksInto this world which I disown

Because the pillow that I dream onis the threshold of a kingdomis the threshold of a world where I’m with you

it’s a dark and snowy secretand it has to do with heavenand what looks like sleep is really hot pursuit

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